Job Description

To collaborate with business stakeholders to provide financial expertise, insights, and guidance while designing and improving financial processes that ensure consistent, efficient, and value-driven delivery of financial services.

Hello Future Chief Financial Officer

At FNB Short Term Insurance, we help customers meet their short-term insurance needs through simple, convenient self-service solutions. If you are energetic, helpful, and customer-centric and passionate about making insurance easier and more accessible for our customers, you are more than welcome to apply.

FNB Short Term Insurance is seeking an accomplished and commercially astute Chief Financial Officer to provide executive financial leadership, strengthen governance and translate complex financial and actuarial information into strategic business insight.

Are you someone who can:

• Align the financial strategy, plans, forecasts and capital requirements with the strategic objectives of the business.
• Lead accurate and timely month-end, year-end, statutory, management and board reporting, including the delivery and interpretation of IFRS 17 results.
• Maintain effective financial controls, data integrity and compliance with applicable insurance legislation, prudential requirements, accounting standards and internal governance frameworks.
• Review and challenge actuarial results, reserving movements, valuation assumptions, claims experience and key insurance performance drivers.
• Provide clear financial insight to executive management and boards while managing relationships with regulators, auditors, actuarial teams and other key stakeholders.
• Lead and develop a high-performing finance team that demonstrates accountability, ethical judgement, technical excellence and continuous improvement
• Drive capital management, solvency oversight, liquidity planning and capital allocation decisions to support sustainable growth and regulatory compliance
• Act as a trusted adviser to the CEO and leadership team, providing commercial insight and financial guidance to support strategic decision-making
• Support product profitability, pricing decisions, reinsurance arrangements and strategic business initiatives through robust financial analysis
• Lead budgeting, forecasting and scenario modelling processes, incorporating claims trends, premium growth and evolving market conditions
• Lead and support the groups wider insurance entities by ensuring month end reporting and processes, budgets, board reporting are conducted in a timely manner.

You will be an ideal candidate if you:

• Have a Minimum Qualification - Chartered Accountant qualification or equivalent professional designation.
• Postgraduate qualification in Finance or Business is advantageous.
• Have at least 10 years’ finance experience in roles of increasing complexity, including senior finance leadership experience within insurance or financial services.
• Have proven experience leading finance teams and overseeing month-end, year-end, statutory, management and board reporting.
• Demonstrated IFRS 17 experience, including the interpretation of insurance financial results and engagement with actuarial valuation processes
• Have experience engaging in executive management, boards, regulators, auditors and cross-functional stakeholders in a regulated insurance environment

The ideal candidate will demonstrate:

• Strong understanding of short-term insurance financial drivers, claims dynamics, underwriting performance and expense management.
• Advanced knowledge of IFRS 17, insurance service results, risk adjustment, contractual service margin and onerous contracts.
• Expertise in financial governance, statutory and executive reporting, control design, capital planning and data integrity.
• The ability to interrogate detailed financial and actuarial outcomes while communicating concise, commercially relevant insights.
• Credibility and influence when engaging boards, regulators, auditors and senior stakeholders.

You will have access to:

• Opportunities to network and collaborate with solutionists specialist teams.
• A challenging and evolving working environment.
• Opportunities to innovate and grow within the Banking ecosystem.

We can be a match if you are:

• Always doing the right thing – Fight for ethical conduct and transparency, both inside and outside
• Curious – Believe in insight, creativity, and its power to unlock value
• Deeply Invested – Take initiative and be a leader in your own right
• Valuing differences – Be inclusive, gracious, decent, and humble
• Building Trust not Territory – Create a culture of sharing
• Courage – We’ve built a culture of bravery by speaking our minds and encouraging others to do the same

Are you interested to take the step? We look forward to engaging with you further.

Application Portal: Workday (Workday (myworkdayjobs.com)

Closing Date: 20 August 2026

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Important Closing Date Note

Take note that applications will not be accepted on the below date and onwards, kindly submit applications ahead of the closing date indicated below.

21/08/26